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- 3. CURARE •X, an alkaloid, is used by south American natives as “Arrow poison”. • A non-depolarizing muscle relaxant is synthesized from X.
- 4. INSULIN • On 23 January 1923, 3 scientists were awarded U.S. patents on X and the method used to make it. They all sold these patents to the University of Toronto for $1 each. • One of them famously said, “X does not belong to me, it belongs to the world.”
- 5. PHOCOMELIA This German company invented a drug , which was used as a tranquilizer initially and later prescribed as off label to treat morning sickness of the pregnant females in the early 1960s causing X (A serious teratogenic effect) in the babies born resulting X disaster in European countries.
- 6. AMPHETAMINE / Methamphetamine •It’s to be said that, under the influence of the drug X, German soldiers were able to make warfare by fast-moving forces followed by air support (Blitzkrieg).
- 7. ASVIN TWINS •X, are well know twin brothers and father of Nakul and Sahadev in Hindu mythology. •They are also known as Gods of Health and Medicine.
- 8. • In 1933, Karl Paul Link and his laboratory of chemists working at the University of Wisconsin set out to isolate and characterize the hemorrhagic agent from the spoiled hay. • Karl Link continued working on developing more potent coumarin-based anticoagulants for use as rodent poisons, resulting in drug Xin 1948. The name of Xcomes from their alumni foundation. ARIN
- 9. HEART-SHAPED HERB “He or she who consumes the X becomes the Black Panther. Through a ritual that has existed for generations, fruit from the flower is offered to one who is worthy to claim the mantle” -- Shuri (A fictional character)
- 10. ORS “Dr. Mahalanbis is known for his epoch-making discovery on the dissemination of use of X during cholera outbreaks in Bangladeshi refugee camps in 1971 which dramatically reduced the case fatality rate” – ICMR
- 11. ISONIAZID X, Only first-line antitubercular drug which is metabolized by genetically driven acetylation.
- 12. COCAINE • Sherlock Holmes took X, generally to offset the boredom he felt when he was not working on a case. • An injected mixture of X and Y , is known as "speedball“
- 13. VIOXX • The painkiller Rofecoxib, brand name X produced by this company had a huge setback as it causes X disester (88,000 Americans had heart attacks, and 38,000 of them died). (Lancet). They had to withdraw their product from the market in 2004 and paid $4.5 million as lawsuit.
- 14. • Central Drug Research Institute is situated in the city X. • the image shows the signature cuisine of this city. LUCKNOW
- 15. RAMNATH CHOPRA • After service in the army, X established a research laboratory where he worked as a professor of a pharmacology at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine. • He is considered the "Father of Indian Pharmacology"
- 16. ARTESUNATE • WHO conducted SOLIDARITY PLUS trial for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. • Instead of 4 treatment arms in Solidarity trial, S+ trial has 3 arms. One of them is antimalarial drug X commonly used in India.
- 17. AUTONOMY • Among the 4 core principles of bioethics, X is usually expressed as the right of competent adults to make informed decisions about their own medical care. • The principle underlies the requirement to seek the consent or informed agreement of the patient before any investigation or treatment takes place
- 18. NUREMBERG • After World War II, a series of trials were held to hold members of the Nazi party responsible for a multitude of war crimes. • The trials were approved by President Harry Truman on 2 May 1945, and were led by the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. They began on 20 November 1945, in city named X, Germany, in what became known as the “X trials”. • In the trial of USA v. Brandt, which became popularly known as the "Doctors' Trial", German physicians responsible for conducting unethical medical procedures on humans during the war in concentration camps, were tried.
- 19. G- Protein (GPCR) • Alfred Goodman Gilman, who co-authored Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics with Louis S. Goodman, from whom his middle name came. • He was famous for his discovery of X which is one of the most commonly macromolecule found in our body.
- 20. EXENATIDE •X is a synthetic form of a protein found in the saliva of the Gila monster, a large lizard that is native to Mexico and the southwestern United States. • •X has demonstrated a wide range of glucoregulatory effects in clinical trials.
- 21. MIRACURALL Professor Trilokeshwar Shonku who is a Bengali fictional scientist invents a fictional drug X that cures any kind of ailment.
- 22. •X is more than 150 years old German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, which is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. •X first patented the drug acetyl salicylic acid with their brand name Aspirin.
Editor's Notes
- #5: Hint: This disaster probed to start pharmacovigilance